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Tableaux Vivants

With your group, plan two tableaux vivants ("living pictures" in French) that will help teach your classmates about the document you just discussed. What would a painting or photograph illustrating this document look like? Recreate that picture with members of your group stepping in as the characters represented.

The first tableau vivant pose should illustrate "the way things were"—the circumstances that the activists wanted to change, (based on your document).

The second pose should illustrate that change (based on your document). In the second pose, each member of your group should be clear who their character is, what role that character plays, and what s/he believes. (see below)

After completing your poses, you will be asked to communicate the following to your classmates about the document you discussed, while staying in character:

What is the Brooklyn Bridge Collective and newspaper? Who are you?

What concerns do you have?

Is your activism focused within the Jewish community or more about the broader community?

How, if at all, do you see your struggle as connected to the Civil Rights Movement?

How do you plan to bring about the change you want to see? (if known from the document)

You should also be prepared to answer other questions posed by other students in the class, while staying in character.